Criminal justice

Grocery stores targeting youths with curfews sends the harmful and inaccurate message that young people are primarily responsible for crime and shoplifting, says Hannah Stommel, a Zubrow fellow at the Juvenile Law Center.

Howard County Police said in a news release that they believe a 17-year-old from Columbia targeted Angelo Little, also 17, as shoppers milled about on July 27. Detectives said the suspect and victim knew each other, but they have not determined a motive.

The 29-year-old woman who was arrested over the weekend and charged with murder after a woman’s death in Catonsville killed her sister after a wedding, according to charging documents.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown on Tuesday said that over the course of three successful burglaries, the group stole at least 81 firearms and 10 firearm replicas from gun stores.

Andrea Rodriguez Avila transferred to Rice, in Houston, Texas, last spring from the Community College of Baltimore County. She was from Nottingham, Maryland, and graduated from Perry Hall High School in 2021.

"Your honor," Chris Bendann told U.S. Senior District Judge James K. Bredar on Tuesday as court adjourned for the day, "I've been advised to let you know I'll sleep on it."

Joshua Matthew Duerk, a business owner and former volunteer coach for Centennial High School, is facing charges in Howard County after police say he sexually assaulted a teen this month in his Ellicott City home.

A Maryland woman was found shot and killed inside her dorm room on Monday at Rice University in Houston, according to police.

One by one, Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen McGuinn played clips from eight videos to the jury in the trial of Chris Bendann, 40, of Baltimore, a former teacher at the Gilman School.

Jason Dean Billingsley, 33, pleaded guilty Monday to attacking and sexually assaulting a Baltimore couple.

Baltimore County Police said a 31-year-old woman was found stabbed at a home in Catonsville early Sunday. The victim was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Maryland State Police said Quwan Gordon of Owings Mills was charged with shooting at the driver of another car on Interstate 95.

Christopher Gamble left an unsecured, illegal handgun in the presence of his daughter, who died from a gunshot wound in December 2023.

A man, 23, testified for more than two hours in U.S. District Court in Baltimore about how his former teacher at the Gilman School, Chris Bendann, sexually abused and extorted him.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday in favor of Maryland’s tough requirements for obtaining a handgun license, a blow to gun rights supporters who have been fighting the law for years and a win for gun safety advocates.

Justin Lee ignited and threw a smoke bomb into the tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where a mob of rioters attacked a group of outnumbered police officers. The device struck a police officer’s riot shield and filled the mouth of the tunnel with a large plume of smoke, prosecutors said.

Investigators arrested Jalesia Offer, 34, and her fiance Brandon Wheatley, 34, and charged them in connection to the death of Offer’s 6-year-old son Brian Graham, who died this week from blunt force trauma.

Detectives with the Baltimore County Homicide Unit arrested Bryan Demetric Cherry, 36, on Thursday. He faces a count of first-degree murder charges and is being held without bond. An attorney was not immediately listed in online court records.

The Sunday night shooting near the building killed one person and wounded seven others. Law enforcement is investigating if the group is involved after noise complaints from the community earlier that night.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen McGuinn and Christopher Nieto, one of Chris Bendann’s attorneys, are set to deliver their opening statements Friday.